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Is Your Utility Ready for Smart Inverters?

Smart inverters are getting more attention these days with utilities looking to mitigate voltage instability and variability on the system brought forth by distributed energy resources (DER). As the penetration of DERs increases, autonomous operation of smart inverters…

Jill FeblowitzSeptember 27, 2019

Grid Strategy Technology

CapX2020 utilities to study transmission grid’s ability to support ambitious carbon reduction goals

Upper Midwest regional utilities are embarking on a cross-state effort to establish a transmission investment approach. Midwest consortium CapX2020 utilities announced yesterday that they will study the Upper Midwest transmission network to identify system improvements and infrastructure upgrades…

Lauren CallawayAugust 20, 2019

Asset & Workforce Grid Technology

Outage data is everywhere

Social media and nontraditional data sets create transparency of when, why and where major grid events occur. In the fall of 2018, with a new vision of grid resiliency —driven by industry collaboration and a necessity to provide…

Michael S. Weber and Nancy HarrisAugust 2, 2019

Customer Grid Technology

Oracle customers testing analytics solutions for EV adoption and integration

Oracle is ramping up investment in analytics-based products and services to facilitate smoother utility operations alongside booming EV adoption. Oracle recently announced that the company is “test driving” EV analytics with several partner utilities. Oracle takes a two-pronged…

Jill FeblowitzJuly 23, 2019

Grid Technology

A virtual environment with AI-powered digitization

AI-powered technologies are transforming business models, value streams, and revenue opportunities throughout the electric power industry. The prime directive for the “Charging Ahead” department at T&D World is to explore new technologies and older technologies that are being reestablished or…

Gene WolfJuly 17, 2019

Grid Technology

JEA is building flexibility into management of power and water

JEA is preparing for a flexible grid for power and water With the introduction of new sources of power, both distributed and centralized, along with more frequent extreme weather conditions, utilities are looking for ways to enable a…

Jill FeblowitzJuly 2, 2019

Grid Strategy

Grid Analytics: Good or Great?

To thrive in the grid of the future, we must leverage analytics to move from good to great. As a kid growing up in Wyoming, I played every sport and, being from a small town, was considered good…

Mark JohnsonJune 26, 2019

Grid Technology

How to Determine the Right Mix of DER

The Austin Energy SHINES project optimizes utility-scale and behind-the-meter resources with a mix of centralized and distributed intelligent systems. Austin Energy is transitioning rapidly into a utility with significantly high levels of renewable resources. In 2015, only 20%…

Lisa MartinJune 25, 2019

Grid Technology

DER control with grid edge analytics

Entergy creates new approaches to better manage the grid that involve more distributed energy resources. Today, approximately 120 megawatts of customer-owned distributed energy resources, almost all rooftop photovoltaic systems, are spread out over 20,000 connections at various customer…

S. Cat Wong, Wade P. MalcolmJune 11, 2019

Grid

Utilities collaborate on open-source software

Avista Utilities and Duke Energy partner to create an energy operating system available to the entire utility industry. The electric utility industry is increasingly challenged by external drivers such as regulatory obligations and mandates as well as competitors…

Curtis Kirkeby, Stuart Laval June 5, 2019

Grid Technology

Austin Energy and others moving closer to V2G

Austin Energy wants to understand V2G; so should you. Austin Energy (AE) recently announced that it will work with the Pecan Street project to test Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology, adding to an increasing number of V2G pilots…

Jill FeblowitzMay 28, 2019

Grid Technology

EPRI identifies impacts, solutions for EMP effects on grid

Three-year EPRI study indicates a cost-effective path to enhance the resilience of the electric grid. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has released findings from its three-year study of the potential impacts of high-altitude electromagnetic pulses (EMP) on the…

UAI Content TeamMay 14, 2019

Grid

Is Your Utility Ready for Smart Inverters?

CapX2020 utilities to study transmission grid’s ability to support ambitious carbon reduction goals

Outage data is everywhere

Oracle customers testing analytics solutions for EV adoption and integration

A virtual environment with AI-powered digitization

JEA is building flexibility into management of power and water

Grid Analytics: Good or Great?

How to Determine the Right Mix of DER

DER control with grid edge analytics

Utilities collaborate on open-source software

Austin Energy and others moving closer to V2G

EPRI identifies impacts, solutions for EMP effects on grid

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